Chapter 9: Second Brother
Looking at the bees flying around, looking at it, Liu Ju laughed, children are children, although bees can cause chaos to the crowd, but they are just chaos, they can't kill people, and bees don't know people, they can sting those officials, it will also sting us.
"Actually, I also know that relying on these bees will not do anything" Xiao San said softly: "I mainly want to use this"
Xiao San took out a cage from the side of the west wing, and there was a colorful snake lying in the cage.
"Snake?!" Liu Ju's spirit suddenly became nervous, this is a highly poisonous krait. Uncle Huo Qubing told him that all kinds of snakes, the more colorful the snake, the more venomous: "You, where did you get it?" ”
"Of course it's from the mountains," Xiao Bu said proudly, "I and the big foolish girl have been looking for this for nearly two days."
"You're too daring." Liu Ju looked at this son and couldn't help but admire. Ask yourself, he doesn't have the guts to catch such a snake.
"Then use it to control the leaders of those officers and soldiers, and let him send us away" Xiao Budian still looked calm, not the slightest bit excited, as if to say, 'Come to your house for dinner tonight, don't forget to kill a chicken'
"But as long as he knows where we're going, he'll always catch up."
"He won't know where we're going"
"You won't ......"
"Yes, definitely...... Didn't my aunt say that the world has nothing to do with me, so what does the world have to do with me? Since they seek riches from each other, this is the price of riches, which is very fair! ”
The conversation between father and son ended, as a father, Liu Ju had no desire to speak, he didn't know how to evaluate this son, according to the royal education, he was right: I can't use it, what's the use of keeping it? can be incompatible with Confucianism's 'benevolence', and Liu Ju doesn't know how to judge.
In the yard, it seems that there are more bees, maybe flies.
"Ah~~~ Dead man, dead man!!"
Just when Liu Ju and Xiao San were relatively speechless, the second brother let out hysterical screams. The father and son turned their heads to look, but saw that the little second brother ran into the upper room like a ghost, like a gust of wind, and then closed the door with a bang.
Liu Ju hurriedly chased after him and pushed the door twice, but he didn't push it, it must have been the second boy who was inside and killed the door.
"Bao'er, Bao'er, open the door for the father."
"No, you're not my father, you're here to kill me."
Liu Ju forcibly pushed the door open, and when Xiao Er saw the door open, he crawled into the corner of the wall, curled up, and trembled: "Don't kill me, don't kill me." ”
Liu Ju hurriedly held the second son in his arms, and kept comforting him: "Bao'er is not afraid, Bao'er is not afraid, my father is here." ”
"Father, father, they want to kill Bao'er! Yes! Go away, don't kill me, woo woo" In his father's arms, the second boy was a little more stable, but his eyes of fear were still looking around.
"Second brother, second brother, what's wrong with you?" Later, the junior who followed up found that his brother's situation was very wrong, so he asked with concern. But the second brother turned a deaf ear to his inquiry.
"Father, what's wrong with the second brother?" Xiao San had no choice but to ask Liu Ju, in the past, although the second brother was a little frightened, he didn't have such a violent reaction, today, how could there be such a reaction.
"The second brother is fine" Liu Ju knew that the second boy was frightened by the two corpses in the hospital, and the old illness recurred: "Go get a bowl of water." ”
Xiao San hurriedly ran to the east wing, and after a while, he brought a bowl of water.
Liu Ju was about to bring the water to Bao'er's mouth, and Bao'er knocked over the water bowl
"Poisonous, they want to poison me! Father, they want to poison me"
Xiao San stood stunned: "Father, I didn't release poison, I really didn't release poison." ”
"The father knew that San'er didn't put the poison. It's your brother who has a nightmare, and it'll be fine in a while, and it'll be fine in a while. ”
"Bao'er is not afraid, Bao'er is obedient" Under the comfort of Liu Ju's nonsense, Bao'er really slowly quieted down and slowly closed her eyes.
"Magpie, magpie~" At this time, there was a very low voice from the big girl outside the courtyard, and the little three looked for prestige, only to see the big girl of the old fart family sticking out half her head behind a big tree, beckoning herself like a thief.
Xiao San glanced at his father and the second brother who was quietly snuggled in his father's arms, and walked out.
"Why are you here?" Xiao San turned to the back of the big tree and saw that it was all nervous and nervous.
"I heard that something happened to your family, and the officials are here, come and see, you, are you okay?"
"Who did you listen to?" Xiao San is very strange, it's only been half a day, and the people in this village live very scattered, why did the news spread so quickly? immediately aroused the vigilance of Xiao San.
"The short-term worker of the Lizheng family said, the short-term worker came to find my father early this morning, I don't know what happened, I heard that a large group of catchers are looking for your family."
"And what are you doing here?" Xiao San couldn't cry or laugh, you won't be here to report the news, right? When is this, when do you report that the daylilies are cold, they will be cold for a long time.
"My dad won't let me come, I sneaked out while my dad wasn't paying attention" The big girl was a little embarrassed.
"It's nothing, they came early, killed two people and left." Xiao San said lightly.
"Ahh Killed? The big girl was shocked.
"Oh, where is it" Xiao San pointed to the corpses of Dali and his housekeeper who were still lying in the courtyard.
The big girl hurriedly covered her eyes with her hands and tiptoed towards the fence.
"Ahh Vigorously!! When she saw the corpse lying by the fence through her fingers, she forgot to be afraid, took away the hand that covered her eyes, widened her eyes, and stood on the spot.
stood there for a moment, didn't say hello to Xiao San, and left as if he had lost his soul.
How did Xiao San know that this Dali was the husband her father was looking for her, and it was strange that she had such a big reaction when she saw Dali die.
Seeing that the eldest girl was gone, she didn't pay attention to it anymore and turned back
"We should go too," Liu Ju looked at the junior who came over and the second son lying in his arms, his eyes slowly became resolute. Those officials were scared away, not on their own initiative, and it was only a matter of time before they returned.
Since my father insisted on killing him, let him kill him. Since ancient times
"The king told the minister to die, and the minister had to die; The Father caused the Son to perish, and the Son had to perish. ”
He is unlucky, he is both a minister and a son, and it seems that he must die, and he must die twice. If you want to kill, you can send someone to kill it, or you can catch it at the execution ground and kill it. But I won't kill myself again, think about it just now, if it weren't for the eldest princess's manifestation, I'm afraid I'd be dead. But if I die, what will happen to my child? Will they survive? Will the officials let them go? Even if the officials let them go, my father, my Emperor Majesty, will you let them go? The junior is not yet five years old, anyway, I have died once, which can be regarded as fulfilling my loyalty and filial piety, and the rest is that I should do my duty as a father. Since I can take them for 300 miles, I can take them for 3,000 or 30,000 miles!
Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots is an unchanging iron law of the royal family. Father, you don't want your roots, and I want to keep my roots.
I want to be with my children, you can kill me, but you want to hurt my children, absolutely not!! What "the respect of the prince", what "the glory of the prince", you can take it back, since "the heavenly family is ruthless", then I will leave this heavenly family.
The courtyard was a mess, with hundreds of straw sandals everywhere.
Outside the fence gate, the body of the house slave was still lying there, but the blood stained on the ground had solidified and turned black; And Wang Dali's body leaned against the fence, and the hoe beside him also became two sections, one of which was still tightly held in his hand, and the other was missing. A swarm of flies from nowhere rises and falls there.
Obviously, you can't live here anymore, first, the officials here already know, they can return at any time, although they were scared away, but there must be a brave man under the reward, Liu Ju still understands. They may be back soon, not probably, but very likely.
Second, the survival of their father and son here is a problem, the grandfather and the grandfather are all the masters of the meal, and the grandfather and the grandfather have no ability to survive independently, at least not now.
Third, hey, I don't want to be third, so I have to go for the first two. Liu Ju's gaze slowly became firm, go, go immediately!
"San'er, come here, help your brother"
Liu Ju leaned Bao'er against the door frame and asked Xiao San to sit next to him and support him. I lifted the hem of my clothes and pinned them to my waist, walked to the west wing, and pushed open the door. The west wing is a firewood room, and the firewood for cooking is piled up in it. He took out a branch from it, used it to drive away the flies, and dragged Wang Dali's body into the firewood room first, and then the body of the house slave.
Walked to the east wing and brought a fire fold from the inside, gathered a dozen straw sandals outside the door, and lit them with a fire fold.
Then he threw the burning straw sandals through the window hole with a wooden stick, and saw that the smoke gradually increased, and threw the remaining burning straw shoes to the roof of the east wing and the main house, and the roofs were all thatched, and they were caught on fire! After doing all this, I returned to the door of the main room and bent down to pick up Bao'er. Seeing that the flames were gradually rising, Liu Ju took the two children and walked along the mountain path to the depths of the mountain.
The woods are getting denser and denser, and the winding paths that used to be trodden by villagers into the mountains are gone. Deadly trouble also came, and when dusk came, they were also lost!
"Father, I'm hungry, let's eat something first" Xiao San walked in front, holding a branch in his hand, patting the grass around him from time to time, Liu Ju followed behind with Bao'er on his back. At this time, he stopped, turned to his father, and said.
As if to match the effect, the little one's stomach also gurgled and rang. Hunger is contagious, and Liu Ju's stomach and Bao'er's stomach are also gurgling at the same time. Of course, at this time, Bao'er had woken up, although she was no longer afraid or crying, but her eyes were dull and her eyes were blank.
Liu Ju put Bao'er off his back, although the autumn breeze was cool, sweat still soaked his clothes. Liu looked around, hoping to find something edible. How to find some food in the wild, how to identify whether those foods are poisonous, as the crown prince, he is still a little confident, all of this is due to the fact that he has a good uncle - Wei Qing, the general of Wei. Survival in the wild is a necessary skill for a general, Wei Qing doesn't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, he has taught him a lot of knowledge of survival in the wild, and this is his first practice.
There are mushrooms in the woods, and Liu knows that some mushrooms are poisonous, and he can't tell which mushrooms are poisonous and which ones are not poisonous, so he doesn't dare to eat them. Autumn fungus is edible and grows on damp, rotten wood.
Just when Liu Ju's eyes were wandering around, where were there things like fungus and mushrooms to satisfy his hunger, Xiao Liu Chang relieved a small burden on his back and made three dry cakes from it.
"Three, when did you get it?" Liu Juzheng regretted it, when he left, he forgot to bring something to eat, but he didn't expect that his youngest son actually made preparations, he had seen that little cloth bag, a few days ago, when he was mysterious, he often carried it, but it didn't arouse his suspicion too much, and today he took out a dry cake from it, giving him a big surprise. His son's thoughts were actually more thoughtful than his father's, and he didn't feel a little blushing.
"Dali said, this is all the wheat noodles left, yesterday it was all made into bread, if nothing happens today, we will have to eat wheat rice. It's a pity that the jar of honey is gone, and I can't take it. Xiao San said as he nibbled on a dry cake.
"It is said that there are wolves in the mountains" After a moment of surprise, Liu Ju raised his head through the gap in the canopy to look at the colorful clouds in the sky, and began to be anxious again.
Spending the night in the wild was something he had never experienced before, and he didn't know what to do, especially when he heard that there were wolves. Wolves, he has seen, hundreds of miles around Chang'an City have been designated as hunting grounds by his father, wolves are the main prey, and he has also personally shot them, so he is no stranger to wolves. Wolves rarely appear alone, and when they do, they are in packs.
Looking at the two sons who are less than five years old and the other is only in their teens, for a while, he really doesn't know what to do.
"Can you eat wolf meat?" Hearing his father mention wolves, Liu Chang was in good spirits. He has never seen a wolf, and he doesn't know a wolf, the last time he vigorously said that there were wolves in the mountains, he always remembered that he didn't care what a wolf was, what he cared about was a body of meat that was carried around by wolves, and he hadn't seen meat for a long time.
"I heard that it can be eaten" Liu Ju was stunned by his son's jumping thinking, I'm worried about the wolf worrying about our meat, okay, you should think about the wolf's meat first, to be honest, venison, tiger meat, bear meat has also eaten, bear paws, wolf meat, he really hasn't eaten it.
Dogs eat, he knows that wolves are very similar to dogs, and he doubts that wolves also eat, so since he was sensible, he didn't eat wolf meat and dog meat, although their old Liu family has a very good relationship with dog meat.
"We have to find a place to spend the night first" After eating the dry cakes, Liu Ju stood up, patted the soil and grass blades on his body, and at the same time looked at the gradually darkening sky, and said anxiously:
"Let's go to the edge of the stream and see if we can find a cave or something."
Liu Ju took one by one and walked down the slope to the side of the mountain stream......
By the time the third master walked by the stream, he was already dark, not to mention the cave, the tree hole, and he couldn't even find a flat place.
The only fortunate thing is that when Liu Opera was burning the house, he easily brought the flint with him, and it took almost half an hour for Liu Opera to raise a bonfire in a sheltered hill.
"It would be nice to have a leg of mutton." Looking at the cheerful and jumping flames, Xiao San dragged his cheeks with both hands, quietly distracted.
"Three, do you really just want a leg of lamb now, and don't want your grandfather, grandmother, mother, and brother?"
"Hmm~ I want to think about them, but I really can't remember." Liu Chang's expression did not fluctuate in the slightest, and he still looked at the flames.
"You can't remember, or you don't want to think about it." Liu Ju asked.
"Father, can I tell the truth?" At this time, Liu Changcai raised his head and looked at his father's eyes full of expectations, he knew the answer his father wanted.
"Tell the truth, of course." Liu Ju nodded and said affirmatively.
"Auntie, I'm thinking about Auntie. I want a leg of lamb more than my aunt. Father, you say, wolf leg and lamb shank, the other is better. Liu Chang smiled slightly and changed the topic.
"Three, tell me the truth to your father, do you resent your grandfather?" Liu Ju was still unwilling, and continued to ask, he wanted to know what this little son thought.
"Why do I hate him?" Liu Chang took his eyes off his father's face and continued to look at the bonfire, on the night of August, the climate was a little cooler, especially in this mountain, the coolness was even stronger, and Xiao San unconsciously stretched out his hands to feel the warmth brought by the fire.
"Really not resentful?" Liu Ju was a little unconvinced.
"Really not resentful."
"Why?"
"What, why? I don't want to be an emperor. ”
"What if you want to be emperor?"
"Then get my grandfather home to see the children, how big is it. Hey, father, there's one thing I haven't understood, those generals don't listen to your orders, why don't you kill them? Seeing that his father kept asking questions about this issue, Liu Chang was very helpless, he didn't want to hurt his father by saying too heavy things.
"What do you think?" Liu Ju's voice trembled a little, and his voice improved a lot.
"Father, I don't have an opinion, the only thing I have now is when I can eat a delicious meal of meat" Seeing that his father's emotions were a little out of control, Liu Chang hurriedly stopped the topic, and at the same time reminded his father that we are now fleeing, and we are now even hoping to eat a piece of meat, and we are talking about national affairs.
Hearing that the youngest son took the initiative to end the topic, Liu Ju calmed down and did not continue, now, he has doubts in his heart, why is he helpless with those generals, perhaps, he should really kill a few Liwei at that time.
"Alas~ It would be nice if there was a wolf.